To Kill A Mockingbird Jean Louise Quote Analysis

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[Jean Louise] “That’s all any of us have, Hank”
“No it isn’t. Not here.”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean there are some things I simply can’t do that you can.”
“And why am I such a privileged character?”
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“So you can parade around town in your dungarees with your shirttail out and barefooted if you want to. Maycomb says, ‘That’s the Finch in her, that’s just Her Way.’ Maycomb grins and goes about its business: old Scout Finch never changes. Maycomb’s delighted and perfectly ready to believe you went swimming in the river buck naked. ‘Hasn’t changed a bit,” it says. ‘Same old Jean Louise. Remember when she--?” (231).
Although this quote mentions how Jean Louise, in Henry’s eyes, got special treatment for being a Finch, I also see that she got …show more content…
This quote shows that Scout truly believes that being a girl and being feminine is bad and that being masculine is good. Scout thinks that she only has to act like a boy to be considered a boy instead of basing her choices off of the gender of a female that she was born with. This thought process can make things difficult to understand in her life especially during a conversation Jem and his father had about why women could not serve on the jury. This story took place in the early 1930’s when women were not allowed to vote or to participate in a jury. It is said that women were not allowed to participate in a jury because their minds were too weak to be able to handle details of the crime and to figure out if whoever was being held on trial was guilty. Despite Scout always being shown by the girls at school and by her aunt that women had one job they were supposed to be doing, the job of a domestic housewife, and Scout being a girl, her father always treated her with respect and never told her to her face that women were not capable of the same accomplishments men could …show more content…
One of these activities that a woman were excluded from for many years and are still a struggle today in regards to a wage gap, is women in the workplace. An article titled “Education and Beliefs about Gender Inequality” focuses on this exclusion and states that “education may take on a very different meaning for women and men” and that “Women traditionally have been excluded from advanced schooling, and in the contemporary United States many still argue that their limited participation in graduate programs and in scientific and technical training hinders the achievement of gender inequality” (78). This argument brings up a good point about gender inequality in both novels because it makes the reader realize that Atticus, a man, was allowed to work towards higher education because there are educational requirements in the profession of being a
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